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Sunday, May 18, 2014

Spider-Man Sunday: Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) Xbox 360

Rating: 1 out of 5 Terrible Controls, Combat and Crappy Story Elements

Review: Since I just wrote my frustrations out in my first impressions and not much has changed this will be an incredibly short review. Here's what I liked:

-Kingpin is in it.
-Kraven is pretty cool.
-I liked that they made Carnage the result of nano-technology instead of an alien being.
-There's a bunch of little references including Man-Thing. There are also less subtle references to Mr. Negative and such.
-This version of Shocker is awesome.
-There's a bunch of costumes with various additional attributes.
-The stealth mostly functions alright.

Most of what I said in my first impressions still apply. I hate the controls, I finally found a better way of getting around but it involved using the "web-rush" mechanic a lot which, in my opinion, takes all the interactivity out of the game. The hero or menace mechanic is just plain stupid and I ignored it for the most part in a final cannonball suicide run just to finish the game and at about the halfway point I was desperate to finish the game. The story makes no sense and in no way resembles the movie. I would much rather take the movies shallow plot over this none-sense. Another bragging point was being able to play as Peter Parker but those segments are pointless as they don't add anything and just take up time. There are conversation options but they are, again, pointless because if you chose to simply end the conversation you get all the plot that you need to continue forward. It would have been nice if they hid some additional objectives in the conversations or some kind of Paragon/Renegade system but as it is the mechanic is just more filler than interesting addition.

I can't think of a single reason to pick up and play this game. I was super hype for this game thinking it could be the second coming of Spider-Man 2 for PS2 but it's not that. It's barely Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six for the NES. There's no Rhino, no Gwen Stacy, Electro and Green Goblin come and go with NO context. We don't even see the origins of either, they just show up, you fight them and they disappear. Which brings to mind the boss fights. They suck. It's just a face punch contest until one of you falls. Skip this game and play something better, it shouldn't be hard, almost anything would be better than this game.